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Meal services: order weekly, deliver daily, invoice monthly
School meals, care home lunches, daily company catering. Your customer orders ahead for multiple days, edits within your deadlines, and gets a consolidated invoice when the period ends.
You don't only run one-off events. You feed school kids on Tuesdays. You deliver lunch to the care home every day. You cater the office team Monday through Friday. The menu changes daily, the orders come in weekly, the invoice goes out monthly. Catermonkey's menu system is built for exactly that rhythm.
- Daily-changing menus over weekly or monthly periods. Ideal for school meals, care homes, daily company lunches
- Customers order ahead for multiple days at once and edit within deadlines you set
- Order deadline locks the day's headcount so the kitchen can plan with certainty
- Pre-paid top-up accounts per parent (or per employee), so each family pays into their own balance
- One-click consolidated invoicing at the end of the week or month for customers who invoice instead
- Multi-language menu descriptions so each customer sees it in their preferred language
- Publish the menu to your webshop so customers self-serve, no phone calls needed
Built for the daily-meal rhythm
A school orders Monday's lasagne, Tuesday's chicken curry, Wednesday's vegetarian wrap, and so on for the full school term. A care home orders next week's lunches today so your kitchen can plan ingredient runs. An office books daily lunch for the team for the rest of the month. The menu system handles the calendar layer that one-off ordering can't: a menu that runs over days, weeks, or terms with a different dish each day.
Customers order ahead, edit within your deadlines
Your customer logs into the webshop, sees the menu calendar, and orders for multiple days at once. Five vegetarian, three regular, two gluten-free for Tuesday. Three regular for Wednesday. Skip Friday because of a field trip. They confirm. If they need to change the headcount or skip a day, they can edit their order up to the deadline you set (say 48 hours before delivery). After the deadline, the order locks so your kitchen can plan with certainty.
Pre-paid accounts: ideal for schools
For schools running a meal programme, each parent can have their own account with a top-up balance. They pay into the balance, then order their child's meals against it. No invoicing per family, no chasing payments. When a balance runs low, the parent tops it up. You see real-time balances per account and a single financial picture of the whole programme. Care homes and corporate cafeterias can run the same pre-paid model where it suits the relationship.
Consolidated invoicing in one click
For customers who invoice rather than pre-pay, generate a single invoice at the end of the week or month that totals every meal delivered during the period. One PDF, one payment, instead of dozens of daily invoices clogging up the school's or office's accounts. Per customer, per period, ready to send.
Who benefits
Business owner
Land contracts you couldn't handle before: school meals, care home daily lunches, recurring company catering. The operations stay simple even as the recurring revenue grows.
Sales / account manager
Pitch a meal-services contract knowing the operational follow-through is already built. You sell the menu; the system handles the daily rhythm.
Kitchen manager
By 48 hours out (or whatever deadline you set), the day's headcount is locked. You plan prep with certainty instead of hoping no one calls in a last-minute change.
Accounting
One consolidated invoice per period, not dozens of daily ones. The school or office gets a clean monthly total; you spend less time on reconciliation.
Customer
Open your account, see this week's menu, order what you need for each day. Change your mind by Friday at noon, no problem.